Senior Spotlight
Meet... Gloria Goss
November 10, 2006 - 8:57pm Senior Spotlight
Gloria GossI was born in Burnett, Vermont on June 2nd 1937. I was the 9th child of Peter and Viola Flynn.
Meet... Jean Carpenter
September 2, 2006 - 11:13am Senior Spotlight
It was with great "surprise" that I awoke on January 2nd, 2006 to find myself to be eighty-one years old! A shock! Where did the years go? What was I doing?
I was born in Somerville, Ma moving to Cambridge and then to Arlington. In 1941 the family moved to Dunstable where I completed my last two years of high school. Then on to art school for the next three years. After graduation I went to work for Factory Mutual Eng. Div. and then for Coffin & Richardson Egn. Both were in Boston. I received my drafting experience with these companies. Later I went to work as a technical illustrator for the Baird Corp that did Government work. This was a very interesting time to be working in the technological field.
Meet... Arlene Silk
April 18, 2006 - 6:17am Senior Spotlight
Arlene SilkI was born in North Chelmsford, Mass in 1929. I attended the Lowell Schools until the 7th grade then my family moved back to North Chelmsford and I graduated from Chelmsford High School in 1947.
After graduation, I worked in the secretarial pool at the Veteran's Branch of the University of Massachusetts at Devens until it closed in 1949.
Meet... M. Robie Stevens
March 10, 2006 - 8:37am Senior Spotlight
I was born in Piermont, N.H. in 1922, attended Piermont Village Elementary School, Bradford Academy in Bradford, Vt. and Vermont Technical College in Randolph, Vt.After graduating from Vermont Technical College I accepted a job at the Elm Haven Farm in Dunstable owned by the late Mr, & Mrs. Larter. In 1943, I was offered the position of Manager of the farm. We had a pasteurizing/bottling plant and two retail milk routes in the surrounding towns.
I married the former Edna Hersey and we have four children, ten grandchildren, and seven great grandchildren.
In 1957 the Elm Haven Farm barn burned and in 1958 the farm held a dispersal of the cattle and the farm closed. I was offered a position as Manager of Skyfield Farm in Groton, We were pleased to have our children able to attend school there as Dunstable was having problems finding schools for the 7th and 8th grade students due to increase in the population and crowding at the elementary level.
In 1963 Skyfield Farm sold out and we moved back to our home in Dunstable. At this time students from Dunstable were going to Groton so our children were able to continue their education there.
I went to work for Wang Lab as Manager of the Machine Shop and retired in 1986 after 21 years at Wang Lab.
Since retiring I have volunteered at various places - Nashua Senior Center, Apple Valley in Ayer and delivering Meals On Wheels in Dunstable.
I am a Charter member of the Dunstable Tyngsboro Lions Club, Dunstable Volunteer Fire fighters Assoc., Dunstable Grange. I have been a member of the Dunstable Senior Citizens Club since 1987 and president for five years. I am a member of the Council On Aging and have been Chairman for five years.
I enjoy gardening, bowling and golf.
